Internet Addiction.

Intro -- INTERNET ADDICTION -- INTERNET ADDICTION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTERNET ADDICTION IN ADOLESCENCE AND EMERGING ADULTHOOD: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERNET ADDICTION IN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA -- SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN INTERNET ADDICTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA -- SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT OF INTERNET ADDICTION -- EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF INTERNET ADDICTION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 PIU CONSTRUCT DEVELOPMENT: FACTORIAL ANALYTIC AND DEFINITIONAL ISSUES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- FACTOR ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES EMPLOYED -- PCA and EFA -- CFA -- IMPLICATIONS FOR FACTORIAL VALIDITY OF THE PIU SCALES -- Unidimensional Measures -- Multidimensional Measures -- IAST and PIUS -- GPIUS, PIUQ (Thatcher and Goolam, 2005) and PIUQ (Demetrovics et al., 2008) -- The Revised IAT -- Internet Use and Addiction Survey -- Chinese Internet Addiction Inventory -- Online Cognition Scale (OCS) -- The Reformulated OCS -- DEFINITIONAL ISSUES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 ON-LINE PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING: A NEW CLINICAL EXPRESSION OF INTERNET ADDICTION -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITIONS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- PHENOMENOLOGY -- PSYCHOPATHOLOGY -- SOCIOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE INTERNET AND ADOLESCENTS' SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. METHOD -- III. RESULTS -- A. General Sexual Modifications -- 1. General Sexual Modifications: Psychosomatic -- 2. General Sexual Modifications: Personality Development and Communicational Capacities -- B. Specific Sexual Modifications -- 1. Specific Sexual Modifications: Bodily -- 2. Specific Sexual Modifications -- 3. Specific Sexual Modifications: The Couple -- IV. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 5 AN INSPIRATION FROM INTERNET ADDICTION MAL-TREATMENT IN CHINA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Case One: Perfectly Successful Treatment -- Case Two: Deadly Summer Camp -- Perspective of the Chinese Communist Party and Government -- Perspective of Medical and Behavioral Scientists -- Perspective of Chinese Parents -- Attempts to Control -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 PHENOMENOLOGY OF INTERNET ADDICTION* -- INTRODUCTION -- PREVALENCE, RISK FACTORS AND PSYCHIATRIC CO-MORBIDITIES -- Prevalence -- Risk Factors - Co-Morbidity -- Treatments for Cyber Addiction -- PREVENTION OF INTERNET ADDICTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 INTERNET ADDICTION IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS* -- ABSTRACT -- THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET -- THE INTERNET CULTURE -- PROBLEMATIC USE OF THE INTERNET -- PROBLEMATIC USE BY CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS -- CAUSES OF INTERNET ADDICTION -- TREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS -- FUTURE RESEARCH AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

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